For hackathon organizers, before the rules go out
Prize ShapeA published prize is a promise. Shape it first.
Enter the tracks and who funds each award. Free in your browser: the medium decided before the size, the pool checked against your budget's Prizes line, the split and award count, units per person against the team cap, an eligibility paragraph with every undecided blank highlighted, and every legal question routed to someone who can answer it. A run writes the prize structure, or the prize section for your brief.
1 Your hackathon free
2 The structure, checked free
What the page flags
Every award
Who may receive a prize - the paragraph for your brief
Legal exposure, routed - never answered here
3 Structure or brief section metered
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
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Medium
Pool and split
Eligibility
Payout
Exposure categories
Record
Caveats
The page's check of this reply
4 Saved structures
How it works
The medium comes before the size, because the medium decides which legal questions are even live. Gear is the default: winners value it and it never touches a payment rail. Credits behave like cash for reporting. Cash is the easiest to buy and the hardest to hand over, so it is removed when a winner could be a minor or abroad, or when nobody can sign a payment. An opportunity - an introduction, a ticket - needs a written commitment from whoever delivers it. Recognition is a real choice, not a fallback.
The pool fits inside the budget's Prizes line, with sponsor money kept apart and never announced before it is signed. A graduated podium is the default split; prizes of gear or credits count in units per person against the team cap. Eligibility to receive is not eligibility to compete: the people running the event may build, not win. Contest law, tax reporting, cross-border payment and minors are named and routed to counsel or the fiscal host - this page never states a threshold, a form or an amount.